Straight from COP29 in Baku, we discuss with world experts why countries are looking to move away from renewable energy...
Environment
Reporting on Lebanon’s climate crisis, waste management failures, pollution, biodiversity loss, and environmental governance. This category includes investigations, explainers, and on-the-ground stories about climate resilience, local environmental challenges, and community responses.
Every year, winter brings with it a catastrophe for Beirut: Streets flood, roads cave in, sinkholes form, and whole buildings...
At their sanitized table, men in white coats adjust their surgical masks and protective eyewear in preparation for the next operation. One of them holds a forceps. Another, a thin glass tube. A third man powers up an electrode. Holding their breaths, they glance down at their subject: eight legs...
More than 100 people have died across East Asia this month as extreme rain, floods, and landslides overtake several countries,...
Ardkon.com is an independent grassroots initiative designed to bring communities together while aiding social development. In this video, we sat...
With climate change an increasing looming threat, how can we protect Lebanon’s forests and preserve its agricultural heritage? In Episode 7 of our Riwayat docu-series, we look into the efforts of grassroots organizations working to protect Lebanon’s forests in the absence of government support, and as we slowly begin to...
Beirut Today spoke to key stakeholders at COP27 about the impact of climate change on health. Thank you to the...
Desiccated, naked trees of brittle brown bark. Broken twigs scattered across a flowerless plot. Spots of gray where fire several...
On Episode 6 of Riwayat, Beirut Today speaks to experts about the wastewater management in Lebanon: why the system operates the way it does, what problems plague its development and what happens next. Credit to: Nadim Farjalla Hania Zaatari Karem Monzer Laudy Issa Lynn Sheikh Moussa Maya Dakkak Abedul Karim...
This is the story of Tareeq El Nahl: how it started and where it’s going. It began as a garden...
Lebanon’s Ministry of Energy and Water and local organizations have begun to clean the course of Al-Jawz River in Batroun,...
What happens when politicians start thinking of garbage as a resource that Lebanon can economically benefit from?